Love rat preyed on women with sick lies about dying relatives

A SERIAL romance fraudster’s web of lies caught up with him as he was jailed for scamming women out of tens of thousands of pounds.

- By Tom Bevan

Conman Ben Millin, 32, fabricated stories of dying relatives, frozen bank accounts, job interviews and severe health conditions to scam his victims out of money, a court heard.

Four women were defrauded out of £30,000-40,000, with a large part used to fund his gambling. His victims have spoken out about the impact of his crimes after Millin, of Yeovil, Somerset, was jailed for 34 months.

The 32-yearold met Fiona in July 2021 and told her heartbreaking false stories about a sister he never had dying of cancer.

Abuse

In April 2022, she packed for their planned trip to London and he disappeared having claimed he would join her after a job interview in Bristol. Actually he was in court to be jailed for fraud against an former partner.